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Macroecological and Macroevolutionary Patterns Emerge in the Universe of GNU/Linux Operating Systems Petr Keil, A Macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns emerge in the universe of GNU/Linux operating systems Petr Keil, A. A. M. Macdonald, Kelly S. Ramirez, Joanne M. Bennett, Gabriel E. Garcia-Pena, Benjamin Yguel, Bérenger Bourgeois, Carsten Meyer To cite this version: Petr Keil, A. A. M. Macdonald, Kelly S. Ramirez, Joanne M. Bennett, Gabriel E. Garcia-Pena, et al.. Macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns emerge in the universe of GNU/Linux operating systems. Ecography, Wiley, 2018, 41 (11), pp.1788-1800. 10.1111/ecog.03424. hal-02621181 HAL Id: hal-02621181 https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-02621181 Submitted on 26 May 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License doi: 10.1111/ecog.03424 41 1788– 1800 ECOGRAPHY Research Macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns emerge in the universe of GNU/Linux operating systems Petr Keil, A. A. M. MacDonald, Kelly S. Ramirez, Joanne M. Bennett, Gabriel E. García-Peña, Benjamin Yguel, Bérenger Bourgeois and Carsten Meyer P. Keil (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3017-1858) (pkeil@seznam.cz) and J. M. Bennett, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle- Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. JMB also at: Inst. of Biology, Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany. – A. A. M. MacDonald, G. E. García-Peña and B. Bourgeois, Centre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la Biodiversité – CESAB, Aix-en-Provence, France. AAMM also at: Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. GEG-P also at: Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad (C3) y Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, México. BB also at: Agroécologie – Agrosup Dijon, Inst. national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France. – K. S. Ramirez, Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Inst. of Ecology, Wageningen, the Netherlands. – B. Yguel, Unité MECADEV mécanismes adaptatifs et évolution, UMR 7179 CNRS/MNHN, Brunoy, France, and Centre d’Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO-UMR 7204), Sorbonne Univ.-MNHN-CNRS-UPMC, CP51, Paris, France. – C. Meyer, Macroecology and Society, German Centre for Intergrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, and Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology, Univ. of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, and Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA. Ecography What leads to classically recognized patterns of biodiversity remains an open and con- 41: 1788–1800, 2018 tested question. It remains unknown if observed patterns are generated by biological doi: 10.1111/ecog.03424 or non-biological mechanisms, or if we should expect the patterns to emerge in non- biological systems. Here, we employ analogies between GNU/Linux operating systems Subject Editor: Thiago Rangel (distros), a non-biological system, and biodiversity, and we look for a number of well- Editor-in-Chief: Miguel Araújo established ecological and evolutionary patterns in the Linux universe. We demon- Accepted 2 February 2018 strate that patterns of the Linux universe generally match macroecological patterns. Particularly, Linux distro commonness and rarity follow a skewed distribution with a clear excess of rare distros, we observed a power law mean-variance scaling of temporal fluctuation, but there is only a weak relationship between niche breadth (number of software packages) and commonness. The diversity in the Linux universe also follows general macroevolutionary patterns: the number of phylogenetic lineages increases lin- early through time, with clear per-species diversification and extinction slowdowns, something that has been indirectly estimated, but not directly observed in biology. Moreover, the composition of functional traits (software packages) exhibits significant phylogenetic signal. The emergence of macroecological patterns across Linux suggests that the patterns are produced independently of system identity, which points to the possibility of non-biological drivers of fundamental biodiversity patterns. At the same time, our study provides a step towards using Linux as a model system for exploring macroecological and macroevolutionary patterns. Keywords: complex systems, cultural evolution, Debian, speciation, species-abundance distribution, Taylor’s power law –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– © 2018 The Authors. This is an Online Open article www.ecography.org This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any 1788 medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Introduction also been a continuous feedback between evolutionary biol- ogy, ecology and economics (Malthus 1798, Maynard Smith Despite the general paucity of strict laws in ecology and evo- 1982, Worster 1994, Bonds et al. 2012), and some adoption lution (Lawton 1999), there are several quantitative patterns of ecological and evolutionary principles for understanding that are consistently observed across taxonomic, geographi- the development and maintenance of software (Fortuna et al. cal and temporal scales. For example, abundances of spe- 2011, Valverde and Sole 2015). However, these fields have cies generally have skewed frequency distributions, with been emphasizing micro-evolutionary, population-genetic, many more rare species than abundant ones (Gaston 1996a, or population-dynamic processes, lacking an evaluation of McGill et al. 2007, Morlon et al. 2009), and there is a the emerging macro-ecological and macro-evolutionary pat- power-law relationship between the mean and the variance of terns. The notable exceptions (Mace and Pagel 1995, Nekola temporal abundance fluctuations (Taylor and Woiwod 1980, and Brown 2007, Blonder et al. 2014, Gjesfjeld et al. 2016) Kendal 2004). In general, species diversity decreases from the often focus on one selected pattern or on multiple but closely equator towards the poles (Rosenzweig 1995, Gaston 2000) related ecological patterns (Blonder et al. 2014). While and increases with area (Rosenzweig 1995, Drakare et al. there are many examples of non-biological systems follow- 2006). Species with large geographic distributions tend to ing patterns observed in biology, we are unaware of a system have wider niches, and vice versa (Slatyer et al. 2013). Species simultaneously exhibiting macroecological and macroevolu- with similar functional traits are often phylogenetically related tionary patterns. (Darwin 1859, Losos 2008). Diversification of evolutionary Here, we propose structural analogies between biological lineages slows down over evolutionary time (Rabosky and diversity and the universe of open source GNU/Linux-based Lovette 2008, Rabosky and Glor 2010, Moen and Morlon computer operating systems (hereafter Linux). We have 2014), although generality of the latter pattern has been ques- chosen Linux, since its components are all openly available tioned (Harmon and Harrison 2015, Graham et al. 2016). and well-documented, and because a large number of struc- To explain these patterns, we can invoke uniquely eco- tural analogies can be drawn with the biological system of logical and evolutionary processes: the patterns could be evolution, distribution and abundance of biological species, an outcome of assembly rules, natural selection, behav- hereafter biodiversity (see Table 1 and Material and meth- ior, species interactions, or interplay between specific ods for details). Based on these analogies, we test the Linux functional traits and environments. However, it has been universe for classical macroecological and macroevolution- demonstrated that some of the patterns are not unique to ary patterns and relationships, and we discuss the structural ecological and evolutionary systems, and often emerge in properties that likely generate common patterns in both other complex systems (Gaston et al. 1993, Mace and Pagel biological and computer operating systems. 1995, Bettencourt et al. 2007, Nekola and Brown 2007, Warren et al. 2011, Blonder et al. 2014, Scheffer et al. 2017). Examples are: species-abundance distributions of music fes- Material and methods tival setlists (Nekola and Brown 2007) and basketball wins by a team (Warren et al. 2011), frequency distributions of Biodiversity structures in Linux components of software (Pang and Maslov 2013), latitudi- nal gradients of language diversity (Mace and Pagel 1995), The development and distribution of GNU/Linux operating species–area relationships in corporations, industrial codes, systems uses various open-source licenses (e.g. GNU GPL2, and minerals (Blonder et al. 2014), and diversification www.gnu.org), which allows the code to be freely copied slowdowns in American automobiles (Gjesfjeld et al. 2016). and modified. This has led to the development of hundreds To explain such conspicuous universality, theories have been of operating systems, connected in a branching pattern of proposed that predict the patterns across different systems for descent with modification. These different
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